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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 23 Sep 2016

    Why has the Left become so illiberal? Lionel Shriver on whether the left will survive the millennials.http://nyti.ms/2csuh9H 

    10:47 AM - 23 Sep 2016
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      2. Ambrose the Sot‏ @TongueOfAmbrose 23 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        "Ppl who would hamper free speech always assume that they’re designing a world in which only their enemies will have to shut up."

        4 replies 3 retweets 11 likes
      3. Joshua Loftus‏ @joftius 23 Sep 2016
        Replying to @TongueOfAmbrose @sapinker

        criticizing speech or protesting against giving a podium/honorarium on that basis is not "hampering free speech"

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      4. Joshua Loftus‏ @joftius 23 Sep 2016
        Replying to @joftius @TongueOfAmbrose @sapinker

        but people who are used to being praised for doing whatever they feel like might mistake it as censorship

        0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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      2. Joshua Loftus‏ @joftius 23 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        wtf? The premise is basically the exact opposite of the truth http://www.civicyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/v6.i2.3.pdf …

        4 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
      3. Joshua Loftus‏ @joftius 23 Sep 2016
        Replying to @joftius @sapinker

        cc @SeanMcElweepic.twitter.com/8t7m2IwtC2

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      1.  🎃Bury their bones in a shallow grave enger‏ @Berenger513563 23 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @clairlemon

        The Who: "And the parting on the left are now parting on the right" and "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

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      2. Realist Left‏ @realistleft 23 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        Some of us, like on the Realist Left, are trying to put some sanity and rationality back into the Left.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
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      4. Realist Left‏ @realistleft 25 Sep 2016
        Replying to @rockbottom4ever @sapinker

        Nope, we're simply the Left that was here before the Regressives, Radicals and Post-Structuralists took over.

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      6. Realist Left‏ @realistleft 25 Sep 2016
        Replying to @rockbottom4ever @sapinker

        Because there's actually things at stake, instead of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and blacks-only dorms

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      1. Torbjörn Källström‏ @tobbAddol 25 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        Can only think of this based on the headline... https://www.buzzfeed.com/ahmedaliakbar/millennial-murder-spree?utm_term=.qp4em787l#.xb0er0M08 …

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      1. Eric Williams‏ @Geoliminal 24 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        Nothing illiberal about calling out fuckin' racists, man

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      1. Gelf Sara‏ @Gelf_Sara 23 Sep 2016
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        "Leftists" are always & everywhere totalitarians at heart. Nothing new, or different, about "Millennials".

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      1. Don Raymond‏ @dementeddon 23 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        With govt cutting higher ed funding, college kids are customers and not clients.

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      1. szspagna‏ @szspagna 23 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        The left has never been liberal any more than the right has been completely authoritarian. Groups of liberal/illiberal b4 politics

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      1. Chris Ireland‏ @ChrisIreland444 23 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @soccerreform the left has always been liberal, hence the term left.

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